[1][3] He traveled to Australia, and blew glass for the Australian National University in Canberra, before moving again to Southern California.
[1] Meyer has also developed stainless steel machinery for drying and purifying solvents, replacing previous methods using glassware that had a tendency to shatter.
[2][4] While working at UC Irvine in 1967, Meyer and his wife Allison founded a small company, GlassContour (now Seca Solvent Systems), through which he commercialized this purification process.
[6] As well as for his glass and solvent purification work, Meyer is known for his appearance in a National Geographic magazine photo in 1965, riding a 40-foot whale shark as a professional diver in Australia.
[7] In 2015, Meyer won the annual award for outstanding staff achievement of the UC Irvine Alumni Association.